Sharp County record., 1887-10-27

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Brooklyn, on the I'd.
FOREIGNERS sojourning lin Berlin COM
pl ain that their movements are constantly
shadowed and their mails tampered with
by government officials.
IT is estimated on one-fourth returns
from the State that prohibition was de-
feated in Tennessee, at the election on the
Doth, by from 10000 to 10000 majority.
SITTING BULL is said to be responsible
for the present trouble among the Crow
Indians, having shown them the contrast
between their condition and that of the
Sioux.
PRESIDENT SPALDING of the Chicago
Base Ball Club has refused the use of the
Chicago grounds for one of the worlds
championship games between st. Louis
and Detroit.
A SHOCK of earthquake was felt through
out Greece early on the morning of the
4th. The disturbance was strongest on
the northern ana southern shores of the
Gulf Of Corinth.
A STATEMENT emanates from Baltimore,
Md, that the Baltimore & Ohio Railway
Company has withdrawn its financial
support from the Baltimore & Ohio Tele-
graph Company.
THE total amount Of bonds offered to
the Government on the 5th was 81, ,744, 200,
of which S1,657, 100 were 41-2-per-cents
and $S7,100 were 4-per-cents, making the
total to date 12079,650
COMMISSIONER SPARKS has recommended
to Secretary Lamar the restoration to the
public domain of about 100000 acres OF
land in Minnesota within the second idem.
nifty limits of the Northern Pacific road.
THE report of the appraiser of the as
signed estate of the Enterprise Brewing
Company, of Philadelphia, which was
filed in court, shows liabilities of about
100000 and assets amounting to less than
$4,000.
A STATEMENT prepared at the Treasury
Department shows that during the month
of September there was net increase of
S32, 2,35O375 in circulation and a net in
crease of $7,264, 1856 in the cash in the
treasury.
FOUR more cases of cholera developed
on Hoffman's island, New York harbor, on
the 3D., among the passengers of the steam
ship Alesia. The patients were removed
to Swinburne island. There are fourteen
cases under treatment.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN talked to an
audience of twenty people, mostly re-
porters, in a hall in New York on the
night Of the jth. He said it was the last
time he should ever speak there. He was
going to Chicago to be shot.
To EACH of the sovereigns who sent
jubilee gifts the Pope will present a spe-
cially painted miniature of himself. The
Pope is especially pleased with Queen
Vctoria's gift, and his acknowledgment
will be exceptionally cordial.
AvALET of the Car of Russia, in pack
ing an imperial trunk, discovered a Prus-
sian uniform in the Cars effects. He
has been banished to Siberia for starting
the report on this basis that the Car and
Emperor William were to meet at Stettin.
BISMARCK and Crispi, German and
Italian premiers respectively, have held
their conference and separated. 1t is be-
lieved they have arrived at an understand
ing embodying policy intended to check
mate the power of the Czar in European
affairs.
A NOISY audience of four hundred per-
sons listened to a speech by George Fran
els train at Webster Hall, New York, on
the night of the ID for the benefit of the
Chicago Anarchists. The address was an
attack on the leading politicians Of the
country.
JUDGE KUMLER, on the 9TH, sentenced
Chas. Doll, ex-member Of the Board of
Public w orks of Cincinnati, to two years
in the penitentiary upon conviction of
having misapplied city funds in the pur-
chase of lot of horses in Illinois for the
city's use.
FATHER O'LEARY, of st. Louis, in an
Grafton on Patrick Sarsfeld, at Liner.
ick, Ireland, on the Sd, avowed that he
was Socialist and a rebel at heart, as
well as an lrishman. He denounced the
police as the vermin of Ireland, and said
they ceased to be Irishmen when they
donned government uniform.
The Interior Department has decided to
adhere to the rule already in force not to
issue permits to persons to enter the In
dian Territory for hunting, fishing, ETC.,
and has refused recently to issue permits
on several requests. The action of the
department is influenced by the objections
of the Indians.
LARGE workingmen's meeting was
held at Hyde Park, London, on the Sd, to
protest against granting sugar bounties.
Fully 10000 were present. Bands and
banners were profuse, some of the latter
being inscribed with notices such as:
"Down with Bounties, ""Foreign Bounties
Starve British Workmen," "We Demand
Fair Treatment"
The Vailed Prophets pageant in st.
Louis on the night of the 4th was one of
the most unique in the history of that
mysterious beings annual visits. The
subjects treated were biblical, represent
ed by magnificent series of floats. The
largest concourse of people ever gathered
in the city viewed it from every point of
vantage, President Cleveland and party
occupying the balcony of the Lindell
Hotel. The Prophets ball was a grand
affair.